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Another word for wanton

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Modifier

  1. Unrestrained

  2. Lewd

    See also:

    lewd

  3. Deliberately malicious

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Sentence Examples

  • He loved the way she could be wanton and sensual one minute, then bashful and demure the next.

  • His one act of wanton devastation, the clearing of the New Forest, has been grossly exaggerated.

  • He had been more set on exacting tribute than on perpetrating wanton massacres.

  • This mask, which furnished abundant opportunities for the decorators, musicians and dancers, in showing forth how the seasons and their delights are successively exhausted by a "wanton darling," Raybright the grandchild of the Sun, is said to have been very popular.

  • The news of the affair of Sinope, rather wanton slaughter than a battle, Crimean raised excitement in England to fever heat; while War.

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